Recent Updates
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Court nixes class-action status for TGI Friday's drink su
Lawyer News 10/07/2017A lawsuit accusing restaurant chain TGI Friday's violated consumer fraud laws with its drink pricing can't go ahead as a class action that could have included millions of members, but a similar case involving Carrabba's Italian Grill restaurants can,...
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Rooney gets road ban after pleading guilty to drunk driving
Lawyer News 09/14/2017Former England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded guilty to drunk driving on Monday, leading to a court imposing a two-year driving ban and ordering him to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work. The Everton striker was stopped by police outside Manche...
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Abortion clinic dispute to be argued in Ohio Supreme Court
Lawyer News 09/10/2017A dispute over whether to shut down Toledo's last abortion clinic is headed to the Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday, in a case both sides view as pivotal. At issue in oral arguments will be the state health department's 2014 order shutting down Capital Car...
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Vietnamese activist sentenced to 9 years in prison
Lawyer News 07/23/2017A Vietnamese court on Tuesday sentenced an activist to nine years in prison on charges of producing videos that defamed the country’s leadership, in the latest crackdown on dissent. Tran Thi Nga was convicted of spreading propaganda against the state...
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Relatives of Slain US Troops Describe Loss to Jordan Court
Lawyer News 07/10/2017Relatives of two of the three U.S. military trainers shot dead at the gate of a Jordanian air base last year have described the pain of their loss to a military court trying the alleged killer. The family members attended a court hearing in Jordan's ...
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Court: Ignorance about allergy medicine crime no excuse
Lawyer News 06/13/2017Just because a man previously convicted of methamphetamine-related crimes didn't know it was now illegal for him to buy over-the-counter allergy medicine given his criminal history doesn't mean his rights were violated, a divided North Carolina Supre...
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Judge rejects effort to block Confederate statue's removal
Lawyer News 05/11/2017A last-ditch effort to block the removal of a monument to a Confederate general in New Orleans was rejected Wednesday by a Louisiana judge who turned away arguments that the city doesn't own the statue or the land on which it sits. "This has gone on ...
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Connecticut court takes up doctor-patient confidentiality
Lawyer News 05/01/2017The Connecticut Supreme Court will be deciding an issue that most people may think is already settled — whether medical providers have a duty to keep patients' medical records confidential. A trial court judge in Bridgeport, Richard Arnold, ruled in ...
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US court ruling could bring more suits over Nazi-looted art
Lawyer News 04/05/2017The heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have spent nearly a decade trying to persuade German officials to return a collection of medieval relics valued at more than $250 million. But they didn't make much headway until they filed a lawsuit in an Ame...
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Driver due in court in Cleveland officer's hit-and-run death
Lawyer News 01/25/2017The driver accused in the fatal hit-and-run of a Cleveland patrolman on an interstate is set to appear in court. Forty-four-year-old Israel Alvarez, of Lorain, was scheduled for arraignment Thursday morning on charges of aggravated vehicular homicide...
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Greek court rejects extradition for Turkish servicemen
Lawyer News 01/24/2017Greece's Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an extradition request for eight Turkish servicemen who fled their country by helicopter after a coup attempt. Presiding judge Giorgos Sakkas, reading out the decision, said the servicemen were unlikely to ...
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Court considers Kansas rule that voters prove citizenship
Lawyer News 08/22/2016A federal appeals court will decide whether Kansas has the right to ask people who register to vote when they get their driver's licenses for proof that they're citizens, a decision which could affect whether thousands have their ballots counted in N...